Editing Digitalis (section)

===Historical uses===
[[Nicholas Culpeper]] included Foxglove in his 1652 herbal medicine guide, ''The English Physician''. He cited its use for healing wounds (both fresh and old), as a purgative, for "the King's Evil" ([[mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis]]), for "the falling sickness" ([[epilepsy]]), and for "a scabby head".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Culpeper |first1=Nicholas |title=The English Physician, Etc |date=1652 |publisher=William Bentley |location=London |pages=97–98 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WuyUw_5Hd8cC&pg=RA1-PA173 |access-date=22 January 2023 |language=en}}</ref> There is no empirical evidence for these claims, and it is not used for these conditions in modern medicine, only for slowing excessive heart rate in certain circumstances and/or strengthening heart muscle contraction in heart failure.<ref>{{cite web |title=BNF (only available in the UK) |url=https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/digoxin/#indications-and-dose |website=NICE |publisher=BMJ & Pharmaceutical Press |access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref>